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Here’s What’s Really Wrong with You

Here is what’s really wrong with you: You imagine there is something wrong with you. You imagine you should be someone other than who you are. You imagine you should live in the now when by the time you know it’s now, that now is already then. You imagine you can control your feelings when you only know what you’re feeling after you’ve already felt it. You imagine you shouldn’t have negative thoughts when you only know what you’re thinking after you’ve thought it. You imagine you should not judge and then judge yourself for judging.

What’s wrong with you is that you are the result of 13.8 billion years of evolutionary trial and error and hence reflect the inconsistencies and incongruities evolution contains. In other words: what’s wrong with you is that you are normal.

Nobody wants to be normal. Everybody wants to be special. Since nobody’s special, we imagine a God who says we’re special: Chosen, Saved, True Believer, Enlightened, Awake, et cetera.   RR